Maximizing Drug Rehabilitation Efforts in Delaware

Powdered and crack cocaine, marijuana, and heroin are the four most commonly used and very popular illicit drugs that are peddled in the streets and back alleys of Delaware.

While law enforcement agencies are busy trying to curb the rising incidence of drug related crimes, healthcare officials and addiction treatment center owners are also trying to figure out what else can be done in order to maximize the rehabilitation efforts of the state in relation to the drug problems of its residents.

Any form of rehabilitation will require the concerted effort of everyone in society and not just those who are directly involved in the treatment and rehabilitation of individuals who have been led astray into the world of drugs and illicit substances. While cocaine and heroin remain a problematic issue among the different stakeholders in Delaware, some may find comfort in recent developments in the way drug rehabilitation is carried out or implemented.

While members of the community are beginning to take a very active part in the fight against the proliferation of drugs in Delaware’s neighborhoods, specialized support groups are growing in numbers to provide emotional, spiritual, and psychosocial support for those individuals who are currently undergoing treatment at any of the duly accredited and fully licensed drug addiction center and resource facilities across the state. In many of these support groups, positive reinforcement is being used to motivate recently rehabilitated individuals into maintaining sobriety as well as keeping away from harmful social influences that might trigger a relapse in their drug addiction tendencies.

For their part, members of the medical and healthcare community have continued to pledge to work more aggressively in the search and development of more viable and truly all-encompassing therapeutic options for many of Delaware’s drug dependents. While many agree that drug treatment is just one aspect of the entire gamut of drug addiction management, they also agree that a more holistic approach might prove to be the answer to some of the questions that the community is currently faced with. What they can do for now is for them to strengthen their professional competencies especially when it comes to the curative and rehabilitative aspects of managing both the physical and psychological effects of drug addiction and the social, legal, and economic implications of such problems.

Many of Delaware’s residents, nonetheless, have voiced their appreciation over the observed effectiveness of drug rehab programs especially the psychosocial component wherein the rehabilitee is given the correct knowledge he can use to function optimally in the general society.

Many believe that the doctors and nurses as well as other health care professionals in these drug addiction rehabilitation facilities are equipped not only with the correct competencies to address such sensitive issues but more importantly, they do possess the humane approach to the problem. Many of these health care professionals approach such sensitive issues with utmost objectivity without necessarily losing their humanity.

It is clear that Delaware’s drug rehabilitation facilities are doing their part in mitigating the problems brought about by drug addiction. What is needed now is the participation of everyone else in the community to maximize these rehabilitation efforts.